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Hello Nextflow

Audience & prerequisites

  • Beginners with Nextflow
  • Required: basic experience with command line and scripting
  • Some bioinformatics and genomics concepts will be introduced

Learning objectives

This training module aims to build basic proficiency in the following areas:

  • Nextflow language:

    • practical use of core components (sufficient to build a simple multi-step workflow)
    • awareness of next-step concepts such as operators and channel factories

  • CLI execution:

    • launch a Nextflow workflow locally
    • find outputs (results)
    • interpret log outputs
    • troubleshoot basic issues

Run it in Gitpod

To make it easier to run this tutorial, we prepared a Gitpod environment with everything you need to follow it. Gitpod provides a virtual machine with everything already set up for you, accessible from your web browser or your code editor (eg. VSCode). To start, click on the button below.

Open in GitPod

From there, follow the step-by-step instructions in the following pages.